"@Em Bu
The $100 credit was being offered as a gesture of goodwill.  Considering the amount of nagging that has gone on here, do you still feel you have that goodwill (and considering your tone)?  You preordered knowing there would be a delay of 8…"

"@David most of those have already been answered.

1) Jordi commented on Page 104 "Anyway all APM 2.0 are planned to be shipped this week, production is still on time to ship everything on Friday and worse case scenario Monday (Feb/20)... Some dudes…"

"My vote would be an APM2 powered drone with a loudspeaker that flies around to everyone's shipping addresses and informs them of their estimated shipping date.  For example:
(robot voice here) "Your ArduPilot Mega 2 will ship in 2.5555556 days"…"

"@Christian
Usually they change it to "Cancelled" when they ship so that it is a bigger surprise when it arrives.

They will notify you via email that your order has shipped and your order status will update accordingly (to shipped, not cancelled)."

"@dudz they are just regular solder points below the board.  I've got mine mounted on 1/4" plastic spacers."

"@dudz make sure your PDF reader prints at 100% size (some will shrink or grow the PDF image for some reason).  Otherwise the holes will be off."

"@dudz I posted a drill template here: http://diydrones.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3..."

"Rod: The firmware you load is dependent upon the type of autopilot you want (boat, car, quad, etc).  You need to take a look at the arducopter wiki (http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_Loading).  If you want to load manually with Arduino,…"

"@Gareth how's your altitude hold without Sonar?  I don't fly a 3DR frame so curious to know how well the baro hold works with the default PIDs."

"So my question is, why CAN'T there be a turnkey solution, except with less features.  The 3DR frame/jDrones frames are standardized.  The hardware that people install is standard.  Why couldn't I come in, pay $300 +$40 or a magneto or $200…"

"@Ian: Arducopter in its current form is highly flyable.  The stability mode is great and has been stable for a long while now.  In my experience, altitude hole and loiter are less stable, but that doesn't mean they don't work well (I may well be an…"

"Also by latest and greatest I mean the bleeding edge, not considered stable yet code."

"@Ian PID setting is the most complicated part.  Firmware updates are plug it in and click the picture of your airframe (very easy -> http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_Loading).  For anyone not running the latest and greatest, there will…"

"@Ian I also run custom frames.  It is entirely possible that the official frames fly just fine.  I was just speaking from my experience where say firmware 2.0.xx flew nearly perfectly but firmware 2.0.xy did not or introduced regressions in…"

"If a lot of people are coming directly into the hobby, then the stability of the project is of utmost importance, especially loiter and altitude hold.  While crashing is part of the hobby, it can be incredibly frustrating to put a lot of time and…"